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Post by paul on Nov 15, 2016 4:59:21 GMT 9.5
.. Some solar systems have secret defense mechanisms that most advanced civilizations are oblivious to Quite so. There are "layers" of intelligences involved - some of which are hard to detect at mental levels - and some of which are outside of Manifested Existence.
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Post by paul on Nov 15, 2016 13:43:10 GMT 9.5
After you have done this, with the compasses in their happiest position, try moving your finger around the compasses but not touching them. Then move your finger into the angle they make. What happens in your body? Why? This is not a hard experiment and starts to answer the question of the thread. When I consider the entrance at the lodge where the words are spoken, the use of the compasses seems quite unnecessary. The IG's hand would work, as would a square as would a short sword. So the choice of the compasses then associates them with the concept of the most valuable tenets. And we find from the experiment that the association continues despite the absence of the candidate.
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Post by fjrogers on Nov 16, 2016 14:08:38 GMT 9.5
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Post by paul on Nov 16, 2016 16:31:25 GMT 9.5
>I wonder if Bode's Law applies to other solar systems.
Public domain science does not know enough about other solar systems to say, but there are stories that the US operates off-planet fleets. Also an earlier head of the Lockheed "skunkworks" is reported to have said in 1995: we now have the technology to take ET home.
So I expect that the answer to that is known but not public.
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Post by fjrogers on Nov 17, 2016 12:46:18 GMT 9.5
> So I expect that the answer to that is known but not public.
I imagine the answer probably is known but cannot be made public for various reasons. Perhaps something will come out in the near future.
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Post by paul on Nov 18, 2016 11:02:06 GMT 9.5
>Psalm 90:4 A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just ... This seems to be a reference to one of the gods "of millions of years". The Egyptians had several, including: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heh_(god) "...his name itself meaning "endlessness". ...Thus this deity is also known as the "god of millions of years". "Ra was thought to travel on two solar boats called the Mandjet (the Boat of Millions of Years)," en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra
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Post by paul on Nov 18, 2016 11:15:06 GMT 9.5
>Hebrews 10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
This is a curious statement. As we recall the God of Israel was a jealous god and did not permit worship of other gods. So if the god of Israel is living, are the other gods not living?
If they are not living, why would a living god be jealous of them?
Exodus 6:3 And I appeared 7200 z8735 unto x413 ´Avrähäm אַברָהָם, 85 unto x413 Yixçäk יִצחָק, 3327 and unto x413 Ya`áköv יַעֲקֹב, 3290 by [the name of] ´Ël אֵל 410 Šadday שַׁדַּי, 7706 but by my name 8034 YÄHWÈ יָהוֶה 3068 was I not x3808 known 3045 z8738 to them.
Here we have the God of Israel going by the name of El Shaddai as well as Yahweh.
El Shaddai can be translated as the god of strength, but equally the root Shad refers to the human breast, so can be translated as the god that breathes - or the living god.
So what were the other gods doing if not breathing?
Here are some of the other gods:
Book of Psalms (Psalm 82:1), states "1 God (אֱלֹהִ֔ים elohim) stands in the divine assembly (בַּעֲדַת-אֵל ); He judges among the gods (אֱלֹהִ֔ים elohim)"
Thus the god of Israel is one of an assembly of gods.
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Post by paul on Nov 20, 2016 17:58:44 GMT 9.5
For those without compasses, you can make your own by taking 2 all steel knives from your cutlery drawer, and using a rubber band to hold them together about an inch from the end of the handles. Open the compasses about 30 degrees and rotate them on a flat surface until they feel happiest. Then alter the angle of opening until they feel happiest. What direction and what angle? After you have done this, with the compasses in their happiest position, try moving your finger around the compasses but not touching them. Then move your finger into the angle they make. What happens in your body? Why? Notice the change of tension in the brain as you move your finger towards the hinge of the compasses. What is happening?
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Post by paul on Nov 27, 2016 5:31:29 GMT 9.5
It is the simplest of experiments and leads to some interesting discoveries.
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Post by fjrogers on Jun 19, 2017 18:01:53 GMT 9.5
It is the simplest of experiments and leads to some interesting discoveries. Now that is very true in many situations.
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Post by paul on Jun 22, 2017 18:37:48 GMT 9.5
So how did you get on with the experiment? It can be done with kitchen cutlery and a rubber band.
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Post by pointwithinacircle on Jul 4, 2017 11:56:41 GMT 9.5
If, for example, one were to envision the compasses as emblematic (or symbolic - I knew they mean different things but I get them confused) of thought (or concepts) with the highest point representing our greatest and best truths, and the legs bringing these truths down to regulate and control on one side our feelings and on the other side our actions, them the most valuable tenets of Freemasonry would indeed be located between the points of the compasses.
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Post by paul on Jul 4, 2017 13:14:43 GMT 9.5
>emblematic (or symbolic - I knew they mean different things but I get them confused)
Emblem is an arbitrary association. A symbol has an resonance with that aspect of Reality. Like a TV antenna, it cannot be an arbitrary structure.
It is possible to devise experiments to test if the compasses resonate with your proposition.
How might that be done?
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Post by pointwithinacircle on Jul 6, 2017 13:11:31 GMT 9.5
It appears the experiment would be to devise a method to focus on how I desire to feel and what actions I wish to accomplish. I could then focus my energys on strict adherence to my predetermined goals and evaluate any perceived progress.
It seems best that these goals should be chosen particularly for their meaning to me alone. That they be chosen carefully so that they are the most important matters to me. That they are doable. And that they be known known only to me to minimize outside influence.
I have no idea if this the experiment you expected.
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Post by paul on Jul 6, 2017 14:15:24 GMT 9.5
>envision the compasses as ... the highest point representing our greatest and best truths, and the legs bringing these truths down to regulate and control on one side our feelings and on the other side our actions
How would we test if such a conceptual triangular arrangement relates to the proposition that the most valuable tenets of Freemasonry are found between the points of the compasses?
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Post by pointwithinacircle on Jul 10, 2017 7:02:54 GMT 9.5
So I put something new between the points of the compasses and observed the reaction. It was interesting and difficult to quantify. Rather I would guess like trying to put the taste of an apple between the point of the compasses. While you can place the apple, placing it's taste is somehow more...... what? esoteric? occult? The taste is the very real but hidden thing that can only be accessed in a certain way. Is it possible that some secrets can only be communicated in a certain way? Rather like big muscles can only be obtained by doing certain work, no matter how much one understands about bodybuilding. I believe that I shall have to re-acquaint my self with the ritual so I know exactly which tenets I am measuring.
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Post by paul on Jul 10, 2017 7:16:48 GMT 9.5
>While you can place the apple, placing it's taste is somehow more...... what?
If I visualize placing the apple within the compasses the taste becomes more subtle - more ethereal.
And I get exactly the same effect with the apple in a triangle.
Thus that experiment does not appear to distinguish the compasses from a triangle - but a good start nevertheless.
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Post by pointwithinacircle on Jul 18, 2017 11:00:17 GMT 9.5
Perhaps I will visualize myself within the compasses. Maybe they will expand and contract in accordance with my consciousness providing me with a barrier against outside interference no matter how expanded or contracted I am.
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Post by paul on Jul 18, 2017 11:57:44 GMT 9.5
> I will visualize myself within the compasses.
Observe closely any changes in your consciousness
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Post by pointwithinacircle on Jul 23, 2017 11:30:21 GMT 9.5
I one sense we are truly alone within the compasses. And we stand alone upon the square. All my life I have searched for some way to not be alone. But there is only me.
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